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Pride, well-being, loyalty, good managers and colleagues, and a sense of contributing to a better society. This is how our employees feel about Solvesborg Municipality as an employer. We offer our staff meaningful tasks that make a difference for other people. Do you want to join us?

The Care and Social Services Department consists of two business areas: Specialized Housing and Health and Medical Care, as well as Home Care and Authority Services. In total, we have approximately 370 employees. Our approach is based on treating every individual with respect, and we strive for all our users to be part of a positive and vibrant community that provides security and joy in everyday life.

Location: Rehabilitation Unit - Solvesborg Municipality.

As an occupational therapist with us, we offer you a varied, engaging, and stimulating job. Within the municipality, we have a smoke-free workplace and offer wellness benefits or wellness time. We also have flexible working hours within the operations in the form of a flextime agreement.

The workplace consists of six occupational therapists, four physiotherapists, and one rehabilitation nursing assistant. We are divided and located in two places: an office in the countryside in Mjällby and an office in Falkvik in Solvesborg.

The areas of responsibility are geographically divided, and the entire work group meets once a week in Solvesborg. This provides good collegial support in daily work as well as opportunities for joint competence development. We are looking for you who have experience or interest in working as an occupational therapist for both home healthcare and Specialized Housing (SÄBO). We are also responsible for the municipality's LSS (Act concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments) operations.

Our goal is to be a workplace where every employee is given the opportunity to grow in their professional role, and where a positive and open work climate forms an important foundation.

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Responsibilities

As an occupational therapist, you are responsible for the assessment, implementation, and follow-up of occupational therapy measures, as well as the testing and prescription of assistive devices. Based on the patient's activity capacity, you assess, for example, the need for training, compensatory measures such as assistive devices, or environmental adaptations. You prioritize and organize your workday both independently and together with your colleagues based on the cases you are responsible for.

We place great emphasis on collaboration with other professions regarding the patient and their relatives. The healthcare organization works actively with continuous quality improvement; openness and an interest in developing the operations are required. There is an opportunity to get involved in specific areas and drive improvement work. Your work also includes supervising and delegating to staff, and you document according to current laws and regulations.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a licensed occupational therapist. Experience from municipal operations is meritorious but not a requirement. We would appreciate it if you had experience and/or interest in developing our rehabilitation operations together with the rest of the staff.

As a person, you are solution-focused, structured, and have a professional approach. You have a positive view of people, are empathetic, and can focus on the individual's needs. You find it easy to collaborate but are also comfortable working independently. You are positive and contribute to a good work environment.

A Category B driver's license for a car with manual transmission is required.

Great importance is attached to personal suitability.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Permanent, Start date: As agreed.

According to the Act (2026:43) on register control when working in the home for elderly persons or adults with disabilities, you must be able to show an extract from the criminal record register when offered employment.

In connection with reference checks, we will also request extracts from IVO (The Swedish Inspectorate of Care) regarding any supervision cases, as well as extracts from the National Board of Health and Welfare's register of licensed health and medical care personnel.

If offered employment, you must also be able to prove that you have the right to work in Sweden, by showing that you have citizenship within the EU/EEA or alternatively a valid work permit.

In this recruitment, we work with rolling selections. This means that we may call for interviews before the application period has ended.

In Solvesborg Municipality, our 1,500 employees work according to the keywords warmth, proximity, and engagement. Our values permeate all operations, and we work together to ensure that Solvesborg is a place where opportunities are created for those who live, work, or visit here.

We offer you a dynamic and responsive workplace where we are positive about new ideas, and good atmosphere and well-being have high priority. As an employer, we care about all our employees and therefore offer many benefits. Read more at www.solvesborg.se/jobb (http://www.solvesborg.se/jobb).

Solvesborg is located on the coast of Blekinge with good commuting opportunities from both Karlskrona and Malmö.

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